Creating Strong Passwords
I was writing a presentation recently on encryption and one of the important things to show in the presentation is...
2012-01-06
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Blog Posts
Database uplevel Restores
Today I've been reading Paul Randal's collection of Blogs from a series called A SQL Server DBA myth a day....
2012-01-06
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Q.How Many Weeks in the Year? A.It depends
ISOWEEK 52 Weeks in the Year
Stardate 12:20:2011 Week 51 SSC.Com Web Blog, Planet Earth. With only approximately two weeks left...
2012-01-06 (first published: 2011-12-20)
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Re-blog – December 30 – January 5
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2012-01-06
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SQL Server 2012 FileTable – Part 1
In a series of blog posts we will have a look at the new SQL Server 2012 table type called...
2012-01-06 (first published: 2012-01-03)
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SQL Server 2012 Licensing VMs without SA
I ran across a blog talking about Microsoft licensing, and found it very interesting. I learned a few things, and...
2012-01-06
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What’s Wrong with this Picture: A Database Misconfiguration Well Demonstrated
Recently, I was doing some testing/playing around on a particular database on my home test servers. After I was done,...
2012-01-06
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LOOP, HASH and MERGE Join Types
Today I’ll talk about the available JOIN operator types in SQL Server (Nested Loops, Hash and Merge Joins), their differences,...
2012-01-05
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Management Studio Split Tabs
This is by far the simplest and silliest post ever, but i just figured how to create vertical tabs in...
2012-01-05 (first published: 2012-01-03)
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Msg 7395: Unable to start a nested transaction
Happy new year, SQL peeps! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Last week was very quiet at work, but...
2012-01-05
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers